1. The French-tuned literary film of the drama is not boring
2 Is it deep misogyny or deep fetish for women?
3. It's a bit anticlimactic, and the character change is a bit sudden and blunt (revenge solves all men in one go in the last fifteen minutes)
4. The opening scenes are very clever and bright, setting the tone for the whole film, and the sexual scenes serve as the narrative core as the plot driver, similar to "Lust and Caution". (Lust and Caution is a political thriller with strong political implications)
5. The window is a metaphor of a sexual organ. At the beginning, pushing the window, masturbating through the window, killing the sparrow, and closing the window are very ambiguous (same as the instinct to step on the accelerator orgasm)
6. The sex drive and danger of the red light in the basement, the revenge begins.
7. Sex in literary films. Sex scenes in European films are normal and more acceptable than Oriental (Chinese films). It is not such a big thing.
8. The plot and characters in the story are perfect, and there is room for metaphors
9. The naivety and immaturity of men, and the characteristics of stupid straight men are reflected in all male roles, and they are reflected from various angles.
10. The concept of women in Europe and America is much more advanced. The age of 50 or 60 is the beginning of real female maturity. At the age of 63, Huppert can also make erotic movies.
The actor is actually an exaggeration of a certain character (part) of himself.
11. Huppert has great personal charm and brings his own attributes to the character. She is someone who does anything irrational that you take for granted. Bringing something exaggerated, desperate and alive to the character can also be used to describe Maggie Cheung.
To a certain extent, Huppert is more of a character actor. It is a character design, which is much better than that of Aunt May, who is a container.
She is partly a French cultural export and is entirely part of Cannes. The United States is the export of capital, and France is the export of art and culture centered on Cannes. The important symbol is Huppert, which is more than a character as an actor.
She is elegant and impeccable, but also perverted and lawless, which is simply the spokesperson of the European middle class.
12. The heroine, who has been living in the shadows (discrimination by social public opinion) because of the successive deaths of her parents, needs to constantly violate a certain social morality to gain pleasure like cheating. In fact, she hopes to resist unfair social discrimination. This is a higher level The same is true for the mother looking for the cowherd.
After the death of the parents, there is no shadow, and all immoral relationships are ended.
13. Inheritance is the biggest reason for a person's personality. The development of personality is either family or society. Where does it come from? The characters are very interesting here.
European films are more interesting than purely commercial films because they are more advanced, and they all talk about people's abnormal behaviors being driven by normal psychology, that is, everyone understands the truth and does strange things.
The second is that the characters are more introspective. In a mature society, people are more introspective and feel that they are more vivid and decent.
14. Sex is a tool here. He is willing to talk about the ugly side of people. Europe has given the author and director the opportunity to show non-pejorative selfishness and the recognition of people's pursuit of advantages and avoidance of disadvantages. (Everyone is selfish, but the bully gets things done.)
At the same time, there are satires on religion but also reflection, which is also very meaningful.
15. If you want to make people really have a heart for the world, one aspect is greatness, and the other aspect is good disguise.
It's like Ang Lee hides all the doubt and contempt in the work.
The elite class can realize this, it just depends on whether he can do it himself.
16. European mainstream values: equality, freedom.
The worship of equality is bestowed and realized by the powerful. The crowd is divided into the mediocre and the elite.
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